The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
Click on the links below for some resources, background information, etc. about the book The Breadwinner.

General Information:

Book's page on the publisher's website

Profile of Deborah Ellis from CM Magazine

Deborah Ellis recently received the Ontario Library Association President's Award for Exceptional Achievement. Her acceptance speech is available here.

Quill and Quire (a magazine for booksellers and librarians) published an article about Deborah Ellis in 2004.

Deborah Ellis' book Three Wishes: Israeli and Palestinian Children Speak won both praise and condemnation. It was challenged in a number of schools in Ontario. These are some resources related to that book.

Review of Three Wishes from CM: http://umanitoba.ca/cm/vol11/no16/threewishespalestinian.html

Statement from PEN Canada about Three Wishes: http://www.pencanada.ca/media/ThreeWishes-16Mar06.pdf

Here is a clip of Deborah Ellis talking about her book The Heaven Shop , about AIDS orphans in Africa.

Video Clips:

Deborah Ellis speaks at "Who Speaks for the Child?"



Book summary: